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Patients treated at home often feel more secure knowing that medications are readily available to them or to their at-home care team. Hope Hospice developed a Cardiac Comfort Care Kit, which included the full range of medication a cardiac patient might need and which ensured that patients and caregivers could readily handle crises as they occurred. The kits contain approximately $80 worth of medications sealed in single-use, tamper-proof packages.
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| NTG 0.4 mg - 1 bottle Morphine 10mg/5cc UD #2 Morphine inject 10mg #2 Furosemide 40 mg #4 Furosemide 100 mg IV #2 IV/subc access kit Lorazepam 0.5 mg #5 Naproxen 500 mg #2 Sucralfate 1 gm/10 cc #2 Maalox Plus 30 ml UD #2 Normal saline 2.5 ml UD #4 Compazine 10 mg po #2 Compazine 25 mg PR #2 ASA 325 mg #1 Pentobarbital supp 60 mg #4 |
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